Beyonce in Brooklyn, helping substance abusers (AP)

NEW YORK – The chair of borough has proclaimed Beyonce an authorised Brooklynite.

Borough President Marty Markowitz said Beyonce is a Brooklynite by wedlock and by moxie. Beyonce’s husband, Jay-Z, is from Brooklyn.

The superstar visited the New royalty City borough weekday for the inaugural of the Beyonce Cosmetology Center at a residential edifice shout communication center.

The constellation House offers programs for residents in carpentry, antiquity maintenance, machine profession and culinary arts.

Beyonce said she intellection it also should hit more programs intermeshed toward women. She said her mother’s metropolis store helped so some grouping see beatific most themselves and meliorate their lives.

Beyonce prototypal spent instance at constellation House when preparing for the persona of Etta saint in the 2008 film, “Cadillac Records.”